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    The Phantom Rickshaw

    By Rudyard Kipling

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    The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888) is a collection of haunting tales by Rudyard Kipling. The celebrated nobel prize winer wrote this collection while living in British controlled India, and they're all set there in one way or another. In the title story, Jack, who's had an affair, ditches his wife for the other woman. When his wife dies, her ghost appears, and Jack is terrified. The other stories are well conceived, fast paced and fun. They don't feature any local flavor, like any Indian myths or legends, which could have rounded out the collection.

    These tales stem from the fact that Kipling was an inherent believer: his sister was a medium who involved herself in weird trance three ways with other mediums (whom she'd never met). So clearly a fascination for ghosts and the hereafter ran in the family. This would later play out even further when Kipling's son and daughter died, and his desire to believe in life after death increased. This collection however was written before these tragedies occurred, so they're more often than not on the happier side.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSheba Blake Publishing
    Release dateJan 7, 2014
    ISBN9781304775009
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

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    • 4/5
      This is an odd one to review - simply because the Rudyard Kipling is a true English Gentleman when these stories were published - that is, the "White" people are civilized and good, and anyone not white is almost sub-human, with the darker the person the less human they are. This always brings up the question - should you judge a book by today's standards, or by the standards of the period the book was written in?First, this is a book of short stories written by Kipling in the turn of the century. It has language that I wasn't familiar with, especially when it was pertaining to modes of transportation and the different classes of Indian People (I'm assuming most of these are now considered derogatory). I had to stop, figure out the context of the word within the story and than continue on. The stories themselves are quite well written. The first one, the Phantom Rickshaw - was a true ghost story. The other three stories flirt with ghosts and death, but aren't really true ghost stories. "My True Ghost Story" was actually scary - and leaves a reader wondering about what actually happened at the end. "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes was also scary, but for a different reason, although this one I think shows Kipling's view of Englishman initiative and superiority over the native population. The last story was the one I did not like very much. It was well written, but the main characters were boorish and annoying and the story only worked because of Free-Masonry. So overall - well written stories, although they are totally written in a different time.
    • 3/5
      This section of the iBook "The Works of Rudyard Kipling" contains the short stories "The Phantom 'Rickshaw", "My Own True Ghost Story", and "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes". It also has the novella "The Man Who Would Be King" and finally "The Finest Story in the World".Only the first 2 stories ("The Phantom 'Rickshaw" and "My Own True Ghost Story") are really ghost stories. I found these 2 more creepy in concept than in the actual reading - both of them would adapt well as a scary movie. I found "The Finest Story in the World" the best story in this volume, especially in terms of the writing style. I did like the novella "The Man Who Would Be King" mainly because it recalled to mind the wonderful film version with Michael Caine and Sean Connery!